14 DAY TRIAL // Honda Motor Company has recently announced that a car manufacturing plant it owns and operates in the state of Ohio in the United States is to have part of its electricity demand met by renewables.
Specifically, two wind turbines have been installed at this site, and the company expects that, when up and running at full capacity, their output will account for 10% of the Russells Point plant’s overall electricity need.
According to Business Green, the wind turbines' combined energy generating capacity amounts to 10,000 megawatt hours of electricity yearly.
Honda Motor Company says that, once the Russell's Point plant starts relying on electricity provided by these wind turbines to keep up and running, it will become the first major car manufacturing site in the United States to have a considerable percentage of its power demand met by on-site wind turbines.
The same source tells us that, later this year, the company also plans to improve on the ecological footprint of an automobile production plant in Brazil.
Honda Motor company is to achieve this by investing in the construction of a wind in the plant's proximity. Information shared with the public says that this plant will have an annual electricity output of 95,000 megawatt hours.
Apart from spending money on technology that makes it possible for it to harvest wind power, Honda has invested in having some of its facilities run on solar.
Thus, an automobile production plant in Japan is fitted with rooftop thin solar cells that roll out some 2.6 megawatt hours of electricity, and a facility in Swindon is equipped with 21,000 ground mounted solar panels that can cough out 4.5 gigawatt hours of renewable energy.
Given the fact that the company has not very long ago announced plans to drastically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2020, it should not come as a surprise that Honda is more than willing to invest in harvesting green energy sources.